Tumblr Free Day

[kitewithfish]

Last night I had the bright idea of removing the Tumblr app from the homepage on my phone (not deleting it! Just moving it out of sight) and man, I am glad I did. I keep reflexively looking for it when I have a minute to myself, because Tumblr was good for distractions and new stuff and pretty pretty art, but not for community. 

Whereas anytime I open up a DW window I end up with nine tabs and three replies to write because To Be A Fan On DW is to be a chatty, chatty human being. XD

Does the social media you're using effect who you are on that platform?  I tend to think it does, but I am betting people have other experiences.

I have tried to establish Kitewithfish as Who I Am in fandom with little IRL crossover, so most of my online stuff is as a version of myself slightly detached from people who might google my name. Who I am online with fannish folks is different than I am with people on, say, Facebook, but it's pretty close to who I am in person. I have mostly kept FB a Fandom Free Zone for me, since god, that site gives me the Heebies AND the Jeebies, but I happily chat about fanfic with people who know me in life, tho I am coy about usernames. 

Comments

[mab_browne]

I think that Mab is pretty close to who I am in general and I've been Mab for fifteen years now. I suspect that makes it easier to connect me with 'real life' for the determined but these days I would be less bothered than I might have been in the past.

Tumblr was a different approach for sure, given the workings of the site, and I sometimes found that easier, in that you could acknowledge content with a like or a reblog rather than having to find some pesky words.

I don't do FB even with my wallet name which is perhaps as well.

[kitewithfish]

I've been kitewithfish for at least a decade now - bad for privacy, but so far that hasn't been too much of a concern, really.

Tumblr was like fandom on fast forward - the art and writing and wank all went by at warp speed, without real time to engage. It was reblog or ignore, and that was mostly that.

As for FB, neither do I, actually!